By Jenn Pelly on March 5, 2013 at 11:22 a.m. EST

Today, the minds behind "Funny or Die" have brought us the closest to a "Weird Al" cover of the Postal Service that we're ever likely to get. In advance of the band's 10th anniversary Give Up reissue, out April 9 via Sub Pop, the comedy website has produced a fictional segment, set in 2002, in which the Postal Service's Jimmy Tamborello scouts for his musical collaborator.

By Jenn Pelly on February 11, 2013 at 12:11 p.m. EST

The Postal Service never followed up their 2003 debut Give Up, but the record's upcoming reissue features two previously unreleased tracks. Today, we finally get to hear one, "A Tattered Line of String". The track was premiered on Steve Lamacq's show on BBC 6 Music. Listen to it below, via a video directed by Justin Lapriore / LetsMakeMedia.com. UPDATE: The track was also premiered by Seattle's 107.7 The End.

By Carrie Battan on February 4, 2013 at 10:28 a.m. EST

Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello's resurgent indie-pop act The Postal Service will hit the road to support the forthcoming 10th-anniversary Give Up reissue. The tour begins in April and includes Coachella and Primavera slots, along with a headlining date at the part Jay Z-owned Barclay's Center in Brooklyn.

By Laura Snapes on January 21, 2013 at 12:26 p.m. EST

It's official: The Postal Service are officially, actually getting back together. A website for the duo-- comprising Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello-- appeared earlier today, simply stating: "The Postal Service: 2013". And now Billboard has confirmed that Sub Pop will release a deluxe edition of the band's sole album, Give Up, next month, in order to commemorate the record's 10-year anniversary.

Billboard also states that three separate sources confirmed to them that the band is booked to play this year's Coachella, as previously rumored, and that "additional dates and festivals are also in the works." However, as Gibbard has repeated dozens of times, there are still no plans for another Postal Service LP.

By Tom Breihan on August 13, 2009 at 5:45 p.m. EDT

The last time Ben Gibbard split off from the rest of Death Cab for Cutie to record an album's worth of songs, that album was the Postal Service's Give Up, and half a million sensitive indie types swooned. (Of note: That Postal Service album still absolutely rules, eff a backlash.)

Farrar and Gibbard originally got together in 2007 to record music for the forthcoming Jack Kerouac documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. (Both Gibbard and Farrar appear in the film, as do Tom Waits, Patti Smith, and many of Kerouac's contemporaries.) That collaboration blossomed into an entire full-length album, which has the same title as the movie. Gibbard and Farrar wrote and performed all the songs together, with lyrics taken from Kerouac's 1962 novel Big Sur. You can watch the music video for the Farrar-sung track "San Francisco" here, and the tracklist is below. The trailer for the film can be seen here.